On his podcast, Chris Jericho recently discussed his real-life heat with Scott Hall. Jericho started by saying that he and Hall “don’t have any love lost for each other” and also said they “never really got along”.
Jericho elaborated a little more on his issues with Hall. He told the story about an opening match that he had with Jerry Lynn at a house show in Minnesota. Here is what Jericho said happened after the match:
“Scott Hall came up to me and told me that nobody was coming to see me, get in there, do your 5-10 minutes and get out. No one wants to see you. I remember thinking, wow, what an asshole. Why would you say that? I told Chris Benoit that, and Benoit was already furious with Scott Hall after Hall pissed on Chris Benoit’s cowboy boots by the urinals. He just leaned over while they were both pissing and he leaned to the side and pissed on his boots.”
Jericho added about Hall that “whenever he talked you just wanted to slap him in the face.” Also, Hall would ask Jericho how his “little Terry Taylor push is going” and threatened to end it with one phone call. After constant backstage bullying, Jericho was eventually influenced by an old friend to confront Hall:
“Scott Norton, who is a friend of mine from my time in Japan said to me that if you don’t say something to him next time he bullies you then I am going to say something and I will bully you. Either you do something about it or I will. If you do something about it and he wants to cause anything then I got your back.
“When Scott made another comment I went up to Hall and said to never f–king talk to me like that again, you understand me? I told him that there was no rib, or no joke, don’t ever f–king talk to me like that again. He would tell me to calm down and that he was just joking, ‘geez Jericho, can’t you take a joke?’ I looked over at Scott Norton and he was just smiling like I did the right thing. That was a Scott Hall for you. He was always like that, which is a shame. He was obviously a great worker and a great performer but no love lost for him even until this day.”
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